Thank You, 2016 Donors
Every year since 2009—when the ASA began its membership giving campaigns—ASA members have broken the fundraising record set the previous year. It has happened again! In 2016, a total of just about $163,000 was raised in support of ASA programs. That is nearly a 15% increase over 2015’s total of close to $142,000.
The signature focus of this year’s membership giving campaign was to raise awareness and funds for ASA education programs. Each month during the fall, we highlighted a different story that showed the impact these programs and services have on individual members, students, and society in general.
In December, two anonymous Google statisticians offered to match all member donations in support of the education campaign up to $10,000. In just under two weeks, ASA members answered the call and raised a total of $20,000! By the end of the campaign in mid December, more than $50,000 was raised for education programs. Well done, ASA members!
This year, we are looking forward to communicating more about the work the ASA is doing to support statistics education, public engagement and statistical literacy, professional development and mentoring of young professionals, and advocating for the statistics profession. We will bring you more personal member stories that will show you the difference you are making through your financial contributions. And we will continue to make improvements to the donation process based on valuable feedback we get from our member donors.
Thank you to everyone who made 2016 another successful year!
2016 Helen Walker Members ($1,000 +)
Anonymous Google Employee
John M. Abowd
Stan Altan
Mark L. Berenson
Mary Ellen Bock
Patrick J. Cantwell
Marie Davidian
Dunn Family Foundation
Marian Farah
Eric W. Gibson
Tim Hesterberg
Daniel Kasprzyk
Michael H. Kutner
Mary Kwasny
James M. Landwehr
Cynthia R. Long
Juanita Tamayo Lott
Madhuchhanda Mazumdar
Xiao-Li Meng
David R. Morganstein
Sally C. Morton
Jeri and Edward Mulrow
William I. Notz
Barry D. Nussbaum
Robert T. O’Neill
Van L. Parsons
Robert N. Rodriguez
Richard L. Scheaffer
William and Patricia Smith
Jessica M. Utts
Ron and Sherry Wasserstein
$500-$999
David L. Banks
Robert M. Baskin
Christy Chuang-Stein
Sally C. Curtin
Justin S. Fisher
Nancy L. Geller
Varghese George
Arnold F. Goodman
Robert L. Gould
Nicholas J. Horton
Dallas E. Johnson
Lee D. Kaiser
Jon R. Kettenring
John E. Kimmel
Yan Ma
Jerry L. Moreno
Sastry G. Pantula
Roger C. Pfaffenberger
Barbara J. Robles
Steven M. Snapinn
$100-$499
Baris Akgoz
Albert F. Anderson
James A. Anderson
John Angle
Susan Arenberg
Ersen Arseven
Alfred H. Balch
Utpal Kumar Bhattacharya
John E. Boyer
James E. Breneman
William C. Bridges Jr.
Norman Bush
Thomas Butts
Marc E. Buyse
Chung-Chou H. Chang
Richard J. Charnigo Jr.
Jie Chen
Ding-Geng Chen
Ronald Christensen
James J. Cochran
David H. Collins
Bruce A. Craig
John L. Czajka
Robert L. Davis
Floyd E. Demmon III
Jay L. Devore
Philip M. Dixon
Brenda Kay Edwards
Patricia A. English
Michael J. Eschenberg
Rohmatul Fajriyah
David A. Fennell
Cathy Ann Furlong
John G. Gabrosek
Stephen J. Ganocy
Martha M. Gardner
Joan B. Garfield
Joseph L. Gastwirth
John A. Gaudiosi Jr.
Robert Gerwien
Andrew Jon Geyer
Dennis C. Gilliland
Melvin Peter Gramke
Susan Groshen
Frank E. Harrell Jr.
Mark Harris
Brian A. Harris-Kojetin
Donald R. Hedeker
Richard M. Heiberger
William F. Heiland
James A. Himelein Jr.
Susan M. Hinkins
Karen J. Hulting
Michael M. Ikeda
Thomas Herbert Jagger
Gerald A. Joireman
Richard Jones
Henry D. Kahn
Graham Kalton
Jerome P. Keating
Elizabeth J. Kelly
Arthur B. Kennickell
Eileen C. King
Elizabeth S. King-Sloan
Uwe Koehn
Brenda F. Kurland
Carol J. Lancaster
Purushottam W. Laud
Carl Lee
Roderick Joseph Little
Patti Frazer Lock
Anthony J. Lonardo
Thomas A. Louis
Thomas E. Love
Jay H. Lubin
Kathleen S. Madsen
David A. Marker
Jack A. Marshall
Robert L. Mason
David G. McBride
Michael Meredith
Renee H. Miller
George A. Milliken
Patrick D. Mitchell
Katherine L. Monti
Motomi Mori
Mary H. Mulry
Thomas Arthur Murray
Alfredo Navarro
Wayne B. Nelson
Anna B. Nevius
Rebecca Nichols
Eileen M. O’Brien
David J. Olive
Jane Oppenlander
J. Keith Ord
Franz Christian Palm
Eva Petkova
David A. Pyne
Paul Rathouz
Aparna Raychaudhuri
Martin G. Ribe
Matthew A. Riebel
Paula K. Roberson
Sarah Elise Roberts
Harry M. Rosenberg
James L. Rosenberger
Charles M. Rowland
Susan M. Sanchez
Abdul J. Sankoh
Thomas J. Santner
Nathaniel Schenker
Christopher H. Schmid
Paul L. Schmidbauer
John H. Schuenemeyer
Stanley L. Sclove
David W. Scott
Mohammed A. Shayib
Michael D. Sinclair
Bonita Merle Singal
Richard L. Smith
Nancy L. Spruill
John A. Stewart
Brad Stiritz
LeAnna G. Stork
Winson Taam
Ronald A. Thisted
Carol B. Thompson
David J. Thomson
Theresa L. Utlaut
Esa Ilkka Uusipaikka
Lance A. Waller
Naisyin Wang
Edward J. Wegman
Sanford Weisberg
G. David Williamson
Gooloo S. Wunderlich
Haolin Xu
Linda J. Young
Bin Yu
Bing Zhang
$100
Inmaculada B. Aban
Jasmine Abdelnabi
Abdel-Salam Gomaa Abdel-Salam
Athula I. Abeyratne
Ralph Lawrence Ades
Mohneet Ahuja
Rich Allen
David B. Allison
Hashem Alsaket
Wendy L. Alvey
David A. Amato
Philip J. Ambrosini
Roya Amjadi
Jana McCaulley Anderson
Kevin Anderson
Stewart J. Anderson
Masakazu Ando
Alexander Andronov
Konstantia Angelidou
Zoran Antonijevic
Consuelo Arellano
Timothy William Armistead
Jonathan Auerbach
Esinam Ethel Awuku
Geraldine E. Baggs
Jarrett Jay Barber
Wesley W. Basel
Saonli Basu
Rex J. Bates
Donald Mark Bauder
Valbona Bejleri
Alvin Beltramo
Phillip Bender Jr.
Amy E. Beresky
Theodore Berkowitz
Charles C. Berry
Andreas Betz
Samrat Bhattacharya
Helen Bhattacharyya
Thomas R. Birkett
Herbert L. Bishop Jr.
Todd Blessinger
Daniel Boada
Stefan Boedeker
Ricardo Bolado
Laura Bond
Andrew James Booker
Nicholas Bowersox
Tucker Briggs
Nancy E. Brucken
Jan Bruha
Xianwei Bu
Rebecca A. Buchanan
Leonard Buchner
Steven Buechler
Andreas Buja
Richard K. Burdick
Bart E. Burington
Dustin M. Burt
Michael Butterworth
Allen B. Buxton
Alexander C. Cambon
Joseph C. Cappelleri
Robert H. Carver
Aki N. Caszatt
Grace Chan
Wenyaw Chan
Hadrien Charvat
Edmond Cheng
Herman Chernoff
Thomas W. Chesnutt
Karen E. Chiswell
Yong Won Cho
Jaeun Choi
Robert J. Chrum
Timothy R. Church
Marcia A. Ciol
Avital Cnaan
Jerome Collet
Margaret A. Connolly
Frederick Conrad
Charles F. Contant Jr.
Emily Cramer
Alan Stephen Crawford
John Craycroft
Dana Creanga
Robert S. Crockett
Andrew Joseph Cucchiara
Harry Michael Cullings
Seyedehsan Dadvar
Anthony Michael D’Amelio Jr.
Francis Charles Dane
Yahya A.H. Daoud
Monica Lee Dashen
James M. Davenport
Cralen C. Davis
Steven M. Day
Bern DeBacker
David Degras
Antonio Delgado
Sarah Dershowitz
Marie Diener-West
Rositsa Borislavova Dimova
Kevin K. Dobbin
Peter Dolan
Chris Dorger
Michael Scott Douglass
Edward M. Drozd
Kevin Ward Drummey
Brian Drury
Naihua Duan
Joel Dubin
Norman H. Dubin
Janis Dugle
Bonnie P. Dumas
Catherine Durso
Derek Brooks Edington
Abie Ekangaki
Leonardo David Epstein
Thomas Erdahl
Arturo Erdely
Ruth B. Etzioni
Shierina A. Fareed
Erica Lynn Farmer
Gilbert W. Fellingham
Huaguang Feng
Wenjuan Feng
David F. Findley
Lindsay Fitzgerald-DeHoog
Patrick E. Flanagan
Margrethe Flanders
Konstantinos Fokianos
Kristen M. Foley
Jack Follis
Julie A. Fondurulia
Richard Forshee
Barbara M. Foster
Stephen A. Freitas
Stephen H. Friedberg
Rongwei Fu
Thomas Fullerton
Neal Fultz
Michael Fundator
Jan Theodore Galkowski
Kenneth E. Ganning
Stuart A. Gansky
Constantine Gatsonis
Jonathan Adam Gelfond
E. Olusegun George
Hanna Gerlovin
Soufiane Ghadfa
Alexios Ghalanos
Michael E. Ginevan
Joe Fred Gonzalez Jr.
Mae E. Gordon
Elizabeth Grandfield
Mary W. Gray
Timothy A. Green
Michael Greene
Joel B. Greenhouse
Rudy Guerra Jr.
Irwin Guttman
Gerald J. Hahn
Rebekah Hahn
Sylvia Halasz
Charlotte Haley
James L. Hall
Katherine T. Halvorsen
Randall N. Hamlin
Christian Hampson
Amir Handzel
Alexandra L. Hanlon
R. Choudary Hanumara
Roy Dean Hardy
William L. Harkness
James M. Harris
Zoltan Harsanyi
Rachel Mackenzie Hartmeier
Gary D. Hatfield
Matthew S. Haubrich
Elizabeth R. Hauser
Daniel B. Hawkins
William D. Heavlin
Sarah Hedberg
Karl W. Heiner
Irene B. Helenowski
Albert Noble Hendrix
Niel Hens
Nicholas Hepler
Troy A. Hernandez
Elizabeth G. Hill
Susan G. Hilsenbeck
Joseph G. Hirschberg
David C. Hoaglin
Brennan John Hodge
John P. Holcomb Jr.
Richard G. Holcomb
Paul W. Holland
David J. Holtschlag
Sumihisa Honda
Giles Hooker
Merrell I. Hora
Carol C. House
Stephen H. Houston
Peter W. Hovey
Welling C. Howell Jr.
Joan X. Hu
Fred W. Huffer
Edward Hughes
Donald E. Hunt
Suzanne Hunt
Marie Huskova
Mona Hussein
Ozenim Paul Igumbor
Thomas Ilvento
Peter B. Imrey
Telba Z. Irony
Philip W. Iversen
Toyoto Iwata
William C. Iwig
Eugenie Jackson
Justin W. Jacobs
Ryan Benjamin Jacobs
Peter Jaehnig
Ananda A. Jayawardhana
Amara Keerthi Jayewardene
Neal O. Jeffries
Imededdine Jerbi
Booil Jo
Barry W. Johnson Jr.
Timothy Johnson
Thomas Wright Jones
Jeffrey N. Jonkman
Masato Kagihara
Sarah J. Kalicin
Upendra Kamdar
Nandini Kannan
Richard J. Kao
Jennifer J. Kaplan
Ihsan Karabulut
Vatsala Vachaspati Karwe
Shuichi Kawano
Anamaria Segnini Kazanis
Karen Kazor
Thomas Keefe
David J. Kenny
Gregory Dean Kent
Daniel A. Kessler
Mohammadadel Khodakarami
Seong-Tae Kim
Amanda S. King
Nancy J. Kirkendall
Gary Klein
Jessica K. Kohlschmidt
Robert Jacob Kohn
Lancine Konate
Theodoro Koulis
Julia V. Kozlitina
Augustine Kposowa
Henry A. Kranendonk
Mitchell C. Krask
Laura Salter Kubatko
Lee E. Kucera
Luca La Rocca
Eric Laber
Donna LaLonde
Douglas Landsittel
Michael R. Lasarev
Lisa M. LaVange
Jerald F. Lawless
Kelvin K. Lee
Kerry L. Lee
Sal P. Leggio
Sally A. Lesik
Sue E. Leurgans
Thomas M. Lewinson
Gang Li
Dennis K.J. Lin
Ernst Linder
Simon Harold Linder
Richard T. Lindholm
Gang Liu
Jeen Liu
Yuhang Liu
John D. Loft
Clifford Long
Stephen W. Looney
Charles A. LoPresti
Maria Lorenzi
Timothy Lutz
Merritt Russell Lyon
Vicki A. Lyons
Ryan J. Machtmes
Wendy J. Mack
Carole J. Makela
Dalisay S. Maligalig
Amandeep Kaur Mann
Dennis R. Mar
Olga V. Marchenko
Shannon Markiewicz
Jose Gerardo Marquez
Timothy Haigh Marvin
Bridget R. Matamoros-Mota
Norman S. Matloff
Joe Matsuoka
LeRoy T. Mattson
Charles Maynard
David Michael McCarthy
Thomas P. McCoy
Kathleen M. McDonald-Johnson
Monnie McGee
Stephen A. McGuire
Raymond E. McIntyre
Barbara McKnight
Elizabeth McKnight
Phoebe McLaughlin
Linda Jansen McWilliams
Grace Medley
Marina Meila
Roy Mendelssohn
Thomas Leo Mesenbourg Jr.
Peter Mesenbrink
Stephen Meskin
Mary-Jane Mietlowski
William L. Mietlowski
Margaret Mikula-Mustafa
Steven P. Millard
Diane M. Miller
Charles Miller
J. Philip Miller
Mark D.H. Miller
Judith W. Mills
Shirley E. Mills
Beth A. Mohr
Elshan Moradiabadi
William M. Morgan
Ovidiu Catalin Mucenic
Jochen Mueller-Cohrs
Charles B. Nam
Donald M. Neal
Beth Newman
Vinh Nguyen
Ester Kim Nilles
Michael A. Nolte
Julia A. Norton
Bryan Oberle
Daniel Oberle
Regis O’Connor
Tetsuji Ohyama
Maria M. Ojeda
James O’Malley
Megan Orr
Edgar A. Ortiz
Mark C. Otto
Myunghee Cho Paik
Hong Pan
Osbert Pang
Sarah Parisi
Jennifer E.M. Park
Ian Thomas Parke
James W. Peck
Edsel A. Pena
Gene Anthony Pennello
Maria-Eglee Perez
Ruth M. Pfeiffer
Eswar G. Phadia
Nga D. Pham
Charles C. Phelps III
Luigi Pieri
Joseph G. Pigeon
Martha Dusenberry Pohl
Darwin H. Poritz
Stanley B. Pounds
Bertram Price
Dionne L. Price
Karen L. Price
Philip C. Prorok
William Robert Prucka
Xu Qin
John J. Ragland II
Laureano Jesus Rangel
Ray Redd
Carol K. Redmond
Melissa Reitkopp
Mary Ann Ritter
Kathleen C. Robens
Pacita L. Roberts
Matthew Robinson
Edwin L. Robison
Richard A. Rode
Russell H. Roegner
Deborah B. Rolka
Alan Roshwalb
Malgorzata J. Roslanowska
Stephen Ruberg
William T. Rule II
Estelle Russek-Cohen
George W. Ryan
Karen Sabharwal
Juan Carlos Salazar-Uribe
Alan J. Salzberg
V. A. Samaranayake
Todd Sanger
Serap Sankoh
Robert L. Santos
Roger M. Sauter
Sanjaya Kumar Saxena
Patricia A. Scanlan
Robert R. Scheer
Tara M. Scherder
Paul R. Schneeman
John R. Schoenfelder
John D. Schoolfield
Janet L. Scott
Marilyn M. Seastrom
Stephen Andrew Sedory
Stephen J. Senn
John William Senner
Venkatraman E. Seshan
Lynne Seymour
Nagambal D. Shah
Mack C. Shelley II
Hua Shen
Weijie Shen
Patricia A. Shewokis
Qing Shi
Alexandre Ryuzo Shinzato
Stephanie S. Shipp
Shingo Shirahata
Patrick E. Shrout
Satya R. K. Siddani
Eric R. Siegel
Jonathan M. Siegel
Pedro Luis Do Nascimento Silva
Susan Simmons
Harvey A. Singer
Joan H. Skurnick
Michael Douglas Sloan
Stewart P. Sloane II
Eric V. Slud
Stephen Joseph Smela
David J. Smith
Jeffrey A. Smith
Martha K. Smith
Stephanie A. Smullen
Xing Song
Thomas C. Spavins
Jamie Kae Spickes
William J. Stager
Nancy Stambler
W. Robert Stephenson
Blair Sterba-Boatwright
Mariapaz Stern
Susan LeRoy Stewart
John M. Stickler
Marilyn J. Stolar
Christopher P. Stomberg
Charles Leslie Strecker
Donald P. Strickert
John P. Strohm
Mark C. Strong
Walter W. Stroup
Michael Sullivan III
James J. Swain
Peter Swanson
Wendy L. Swanson
Ruth Ellen Swanton
Dionne Swift
Gerald R. Swope
James Talboy
Ismael S. Talke
Daniel Joseph Tancredi
Kezhen Linda Tang
Yves Thibaudeau
Bonnie Arlene Thiel
Hoben Thomas
Mary E. Thompson
Steven F. Thomson
Tamara Tom
Nancy K. Torrieri
Robert D. Tortora
Ben Tupper
Jeffrey E. Vaks
Mark C. Van Buskirk
Cynthia B. Van Landingham
Vincent Vezza
R. Lakshmi Vishnuvajjala
John H. Walker
Roger Walker
Sean E. Walker
Trevor Davis Walker
Kristie Wallace
John T. Walsh
Hansheng Wang
Qiao Wang
Anthony Giles Warrack
Michael J. Wathen
Francis Watson
David Weakliem
Michael T. Weaver
Yenny Webb-Vargas
K. Laurence Weldon
James P. Whipple
Andrew A. White
Linda C. Whitehand
Kenneth J. Wilkins
Jean F. Williams
Kristopher Williams
Othmar W. Winkler
Haviland Wright
Colin O. Wu
Su-Hsiu Wu
Sharon Xiangwen Xie
Gang Xu
Robert A. Yaffee
Kazunori Yamaguchi
Xuan Yang
Hung-Wen Yeh
Nedim Yel
Kwee-Poo Yeo
Donald Ylvisaker
Marian Y. Y. Yong
Binbing Yu
Jerome Yurow
Frank Zahradnik
Issa F. Zakeri
Ann Graham Zauber
Elizabeth R. Zell
Miss Lu Zhang
Eric R. Ziegel
Corwin M. Zigler
Memorial Gifts
Gifts were made in fondest memory of the following individuals:
Martha Aliaga
Sam Arenberg
Michael Butler
Herman Chernoff
Bill Church
Lester R. Curtin
Sunil Baran Debroy
Mary Grace Kovar
Frederick Mosteller
Ingram Olkin
Manny Parzen
Daniel Sargent
Deebah S. Hajaj and Abdullah M. Shayib Vachaspati
Zhiying ZhongTribute Gifts
Gift made in honor of David R. Morganstein’s three-year term as ASA president